That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.